Suspect Shot, Wounded in Stanton Stop

An 18-year-old Buena Park man was shot and wounded Thursday by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy who said the suspect made a “threatening move” after he was stopped on suspicion of driving a stolen car, officials said.

The suspect, whose name was not disclosed Thursday, suffered a right shoulder wound in the 8:15 a.m. shooting and was treated at the UCI Medical Center in Orange, according to Sheriff’s Lt. Ron Wilkerson.

The incident unfolded after the deputy, whose name was also withheld, stopped the victim and a 16-year-old passenger on suspicion of driving in a stolen vehicle, Wilkerson said. Both were being held Thursday on suspicion of possessing a stolen car, a weapons charge and resisting arrest.

The deputy was traveling to an elementary school for an anti-drug lecture when he spotted a Toyota that he recognized from a stolen-car report he worked on a day earlier, Wilkerson said. The deputy stopped the car in the 7800 block of Chester Avenue, Wilkerson said.

The deputy ordered both driver and passenger out of the car, and the 16-year-old tossed a handgun away from the car, Wilkerson said. The deputy then fired once after he said he saw the driver reach toward his waistband, Wilkerson said.

The passenger’s handgun was the only weapon recovered at the scene, Wilkerson said. Investigators planned to search the Toyota after acquiring a search warrant.